12:37 a.m. — Sorry for some of the typos everyone. I’m still jumpy from the event and flying through the updates. Thanks to those of you helping me find the mistakes.

I’m still coming down from the fight. The adrenaline is still flowing.

Liddell and Ortiz have left the building.

They’re now replaying the Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Carmelo Marrero match from earlier. Scroll down for the result.

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12:31 a.m. — Liddell says the win is the most satisfying of his career. He goes on to thank a gazillion sponsors. Joe Rogan mentions fighting Rampage, and Liddell says it’s up to the UFC but he wants the rematch. Cut to a shot of Rampage. He looks serious for the first time tonight.

Ortiz, on verge of tears, apologizes for letting down his fans. He gives props to Liddell. He said he brought his A-game and still lost but will be here for “a long, long time.”

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12:27 a.m. — Ortiz goes down to his back, and Liddell lands some punches. A grazing kick to the kisser makes Liddell reconsider and he lets Ortiz up. They go back to trading punches, and Liddell’s getting the better of it. Ortiz goes down again and Liddell rains down punches. Liddell looks to be hitting mostly arms, and isn’t really connecting on anything, but the ref stops it! Fight’s over.

Liddell remains UFC light heavyweight champion.

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12:25 a.m. — Liddell’s breathing is more labored, but he isn’t slowing too much. Ortiz has a huge knot on his left leg, and Liddell just landed a kick to it. Chuck’s jumping in with unanswered body shots. Half way through the third.

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12:22 a.m. –Ortiz with a few slow takedown attempts. Completely unsuccesful. Ortiz sneaking in a few punches here and there, but Liddell still setting the pace. Ortiz gets him down with a quick takedown and has his back with less than a minute to go. Liddell gets out and up, though. Round two ends. Hard to judge that one, but I’d imagine Liddell gets it from the judges.

The cut above Ortiz’s eye doesn’t look good.

Bravo gives the round to Ortiz. The first went to Liddell, of course.

Round three begins.

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12:20 a.m. — Ortiz hanging in there but is wobbly half way through the second. Liddell continues throwing shots but at a slower pace. Hands are just as heavy, though.

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12:18 a.m. — Chuck cuts open Ortiz over his right eye and drops him with a shot to the temple! Liddell opens up the floodgates, pounding him into the ground, but Ortiz somehow survives a vicious attack. Liddell lets him back up and gets in another stiff shot. The round ends — luckily for Ortiz.

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12:16 a.m. — Lots of sticking and jabbing. A few clean shots by both guys. Tito using lots of low keg kicks. Half way through the first.

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12:10 a.m. — Ortiz looks just as rattled now. Very, very wired. Liddell looks to have calmed down, hands on hips during the introductions. The crowd is insane. It’s gotta be louder than even Liddell-Couture III, which is saying something.

The touch of the gloves just gave me goosebumps.

Here we go folks…

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12:07 a.m. — As my buddy Jarrod just astutely stated, “I just can’t imagine either one of these guys losing this fight.”

“Everyman” Liddell is in a plain white Xyience T-shirt and shorts. He looks wide-eyed and jumpy. Definitely doesn’t look calm and relaxed.

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11:59 p.m. — The live poll they’re showing on the broadcast has fans split 50-50 on the predicted winner of this fight.

I’ve got money on Ortiz, but I just hate knowing I can only win if Liddell loses. It’s just hard to picture him not winning a fight (if that makes any sense).

These entrances are gonna be elaborate.

I’m so unbelievably pumped right now I can barely type. Here they come toward the ring…

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11:56 p.m. — We’re almost there. Ortiz and Liddell up next.

The place is going nuts. I can only imagine what it’s like in person. Any of you guys watching on TV? You pumped?

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11:53 p.m. — I mentioned the Alves win earlier, but I just saw the replay. Shit. DeSouza will never forget that beating.

I’d love to see Alves take on Koscheck next. I think he’s one of the few guys quick enough and accurate enough to take him out. It’d be a great matchup.

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11:40 p.m. — I’m still in shock over the Jardine-Griffin ending. It just happened so damn quickly.

You can now see Anderson Silva feeling up some chicks in the background. Good for him.

Tony DeSouza and Thiago Alves replay up next. Ortiz-Liddell on deck.

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11:32 p.m. — Jardine and Griffin came out throwing huge punches, and Griffin was wearing him down with kicks. But Jardine just rocked him with an uppercut, and Griffin refused to retreat. Jardine just hit him with about 10 clean shots and absolutely pounded him on the ground and won by TKO at 4:41 in the first round. Griffin was in tears.

Damn, Jardine looked good. Damn good.

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11:19 p.m. — Forrest Griffin and Keith Jardine up next. I’ve got my money on Griffin (he’s a huge favorite), but I’m really worried about Jardine upsetting him here. This is gonna be a good one!

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11:15 p.m. — Wow, fun night so far. I swear — Rampage is hilarious simply by sitting in the stands and making faces at the cameras.

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11:08 p.m. — Despite looking a little sloopy on his feet, Jason MacDonald pulled off the upset over Chris Leben with a submission (via guillotine) at 4:03 in the second round. The guy looked slick on the ground and had Leben nearly unconscious — as someone in the ring said, “Just let the doc have him.” Leben didn’t look bad, but he faced a better fighter on the ground tonight.

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10:42 p.m. — Herb Dean failed to take control of the fight when Andrei Arlovski kicked Marcio Cruz in the face while they were on the ground. Time should have been called, but because both fighters protested, Dean let the action continue. Cruz subsequently got rocked by a well-timed punch by Arlovski and then got hammered by a flurry of punches. Arlovski wins by KO at 3:15 in the first round.

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10:21 p.m. — First televised fight of the night. Michael Bisping just lived up to the hype with some huge hands. He weathered some early submission attempts and looked pretty dominant at the end of the fight. He wins by TKO (via strikes) at 4:24 of the first round.

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10:00 p.m. — Let’s get it on.

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9:51 p.m. — Thiago Alves def. Tony DeSouza via strikes at 1:10 in the second round. (Apparently, DeSouza took a real beating in the first round.)

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9:45 p.m. — Fifteen minutes to go. I’m so pumped!

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9:38 p.m. — Horrible, horrible news… my friend Jarrod hasn’t shown up with the beer and pizza yet. I predict a roundhouse kick to the head at the 10:30 p.m. mark.

7:54 p.m. — I just noticed that MMAjunkie.com is now the most visited site on WordPress.com! The ranking won’t last — and tonight’s event is the main reason our traffic exploded today — but I want to thank everyone who’s visited us the past couple months.

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I plan to fully enjoy tonight’s UFC 66 event as a television spectator. I have waited far too long — and have far too much money riding on the line — to sit here and blog about every aspect of the event. I want my focus to remain on tonight’s fights.

With that in mind, I will still try to post official results as they come in. Remember, the dark matches may be replayed in between fights on tonight’s main card, so be forewarned that we may have some spoilers here. I’ll designate all updates with a time stamp.

Also, please keep in mind that the online sportsbooks will cease taking action very soon, so get your bets in now if you plan to pony up some cash. And don’t forget to check out Performify’s Picks before you do so.

Enjoy the fights! (And if you need a place to watch them, check out this list.)